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| Monday, November 23rd, 2009 |
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Not all of the titles and writers are here but some of the information is making me jump in excitement and some is making me rub my hands in the inevitable wank that will happen. ( Cut for everyone who think episode titles are spoilers. ) Source. |
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Alright, I need some help. There are two books that I've been trying to re-find again, and I can't for the life of me remember what their titles are. The first is science fiction set in a conflict between people on earth and spacers, who either live on the moon or in space ships. The main character is captured by aliens who have a ridiculously advanced stealth ship who are trying to stop the conflict for some reason. The other is a fantasy series. The main character and his dog are part of a people who are stuck in this labyrinth death trap world, except he has escaped and is running around trying to figure out a way to bust the labyrinth open. He has swirly tattoos on his forearms which help him do magic (I think?). Thanks in advance. |
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Does anyone know of the existence of an "anti-slash bingo card"? Something similar to the This is Gay bingo card or the No Racism in Fiction F/SF Edition bingo card or the Anti-Fanfic bingo card? (And here, have an entire Flickr group of these cards, which has an Anti-Gay bingo card but it's not quite specific enough for what I want.) There's got to be an anti-slash bingo card out there, but if not...would anyone like to help me make one? :D? EDIT: Okay, so here's what I got so far. Still open to rewordings and suggestions. There's some that I'm waffling over because I think there is a valid grain of truth in them, but as I said to ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} lady_ganesh, it might only end up being a problem if those particular arguments along with others were hit up on the card.Anyway. -"They never said he was LGBT, so he must be straight!" -"He had a girlfriend once! Ergo, he's straight." -"Slash is sexist because it's all about men." -"Slash is icky." -"I just prefer canon relationships." -"The canon LGBT relationships are boring." -"The writer supported my ship in an interview/commentary." -"I don't care what the writer said - all that counts is what's the canon."* -"He can't be gay! He's too masculine!" (Alternatively: "He was in the Army/Navy/Marines!") -"Why do you have to ruin their friendship with sex?" -"You just don't understand how friendship works." -"I'm straight, so I only like het porn." -"But she's clearly his soulmate!" -"Slash dehumanizes real gay people."/"You're exploiting real gay men!" -"Real gay people don't talk like that/act like that/fuck like that!" -"Why won't you give het a chance?" -"All slash fans are mindless rabid yaoi fangirls."/"Fangirls ruined the genre for me." -"You're clearly heterophobic." -"You're just writing them together because they're hot!" -"You're sullying the canon/insulting the creator by turning their characters gay!" -"You don't see anybody writing gay characters as straight, so why is it okay to do the opposite?" |
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Looking for two completely different kinds of recommendations, from the people who are so incredibly helpful with recs! I just re-watched LOTR this weekend and I've really got a yearning to read more fiction that's like that in certain ways: -epic in feel and scope, full of both hope and despair, with many memorable characters -needs to have at least one major battle -dragons and magic are welcome, though the former isn't really necessary, just nice to have -something I'm likely to find at the library-- I don't have a lot of cash for books right now, but I do have a very good library. Unfortunately, it's lacking when it comes to many of the feminist, small press, and written-by-POC books that I have seen recced on 50books_POC and blog carnivals. I'm still happy to know about them, but I'm concentrating on books I can read for free right now-- unless they're really that good -please no urban fantasy, I'd like to concentrate on older settings. (Have read: Lots of stuff, but off the top of my head, Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Legacy (the first trilogy are my favorite books ever written), Naomi Novik's Temeraire series (loved it), Ellen Kushner, the Belgariad (disliked it quite a bit), Witches of Eleannan (sp?), Cheysuli series (loved at the time, would probably hate now), Greg Keyes' Thorn and Bone series (loved it!), Butcher's fantasy series about furies (liked it), Sarah Monette's Melusine books (hated them), lots more that I can't recall at the moment-- hopefully this info will help in reccing books!) The other thing I'm looking for are podcast recs. I just got my first iPod. Progressive, feminist podcasts would be great, news with a left-leaning tilt, anything geared toward prospective writers, anything related to Doctor Who or fantasy fiction or... well, anything you think is neat. I'm also looking for good Pagan podcasts and WoW podcasts, but I think I've got the last one covered. Thanks!! |
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Remember RaceFail? I remember RaceFail. All of you who participated in it? Wi11 $h*tt*1y has this to say: forgiving everyone in RaceFail 09 I can't even sum up what he has to say. The comments quickly turn into reminding us how hard it is to be W.$. *sigh* |
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| Sunday, November 22nd, 2009 |
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Their latest antic? They're not quite excommunicating a congressman (a Kennedy, no less), but they are, apparently, forbidding him to take communion because he's pro-choice. ( Linkophobes can click here to read. ) |
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I do not know what to make of the story this article is reporting on (apart from boggling at the money that some people earn), but the writer, Peter Stanford, what the hell? Is this suppose to be funny, am I missing something. Maybe my sense of humour is broken. --- ''IS IT the 'dumb blonde' hearing you're looking for, sir?'' someone asks as I wander the corridors of Victory House, home of the London Central Employment Tribunal. Just as he is pointing out the right door, a procession topped by various shades of blonde goes through it. ( It is hard to imagine him, as Ms Wimmer has alleged, cavorting in front of her with a lap-dancer in a Paris burlesque club. ) Source |
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Moe anime is pretty much the hot issue running throughout fandom these days. It's kind of hard not to be, due to the fact that it's mostly about cute or sexy teenage girls in endless general permutations. Everybody knows about it, and it's hard not to have an opinion on it. For me, moé anime is a genre that is pretty schizophrenic, because its definition changes depending on the person you're talking to about it. And therein lies the problem that I have with moé. Generally, I don't hate it that much. I hate the creepy fanservicey moé anime and the weak harem anime with a burning fury of a Chapter of Space Marines, but the light, cute and innocent stuff I let by, even enjoy, most of the time. No, what gets my goat is the big "war" between pro and anti moé factions in fandom, with wank flying about the place and people ranting and raving about "greasy slimy pedos" and "angry screaming whiners". I just want to plug my ears sometimes and wish all of them would shut up. All of them. They're seriously giving me trouble trying to be an anime fan. Soon I hope, this whole moé wank would die down, and maybe I can actually enjoy anime without feeling guilty for it. |
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| Saturday, November 21st, 2009 |
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We begin our saga on the fair hills of ![[info]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} house_wilson, where the grass grows green and the House/Wilson shippers occasionally throw shit fits over whether or not David Shore is dicking around House/Wilson shippers.One day, this (relatively) peaceful comm is visited by ![[info]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} slow_mo_panda, who had arrived to bring to everyone her thoughts on The masses do not react well. (And euclase wins the "most over-the-top reaction to criticism" award for this week.)Having been thrown out by her ears, slow_mo_panda once again continued her travels, landing on the shores of fanficrants, where she hoped to be greeted with open arms and kind words telling her how everyone else is a bunch of mean bitches.Alas, she had no luck on that front, either. After a number of negative comments, she deleted that post and was banninated from fanficrants. And there was much rejoicing.Hearing the commotion, ffrantsrants and sf_drama arrived on the scene so that they could point and laugh.However, this is not the end of our story. slow_mo_panda, apparently having not learned her lesson yet, appeared once again, this time in ffrantsrants in order to talk about how oppressed she is. Or something. ETA: Now locked down, but here's a text-version:( also long ) ETA2: And now doire brings the screencaps.Caps courtesy of xayeidemon.ETA: Removed links to locked fanficrants content.ETA2: Apparently, our friend has left a review on ff.net on the original fic: ( cut for length ) ETA3: Now a tl;dr post in her personal journal. Man, she really doesn't know when to stop, does she? |
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Remember the 8yo in Arizona who was gang raped? Her parents have been arrested on Child abuse charges ( For the linkphobic ) It won't help the little girl get over what was done to her, but I can't help but feel just a tiny bit glad that this happened. |
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I watched Doctor Who: Waters of Mars! Behind the cut is my summary of the episode, my reactions to "next time on Doctor Who", and my random theory on what will happen next series, based only on having seen photos of Eleven and his companion. ( Cut cut cut cut cut! ) |
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| Friday, November 20th, 2009 |
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I hope all of you know about Desert Bus for Hope. If you don't, it's a group of sorry bastards who play the most tedious game ever made (it was specifically designed to be tedious) to raise money for Penny Arcade's "Child's Play" charity. The live feed of the guys is hilarious and the live feed of the bus is delightfully mellow, and you can make special requests with your donation! (E.g. have the crew sing a particular song or put on a silly hat). The bus is rolling again, and as of the moment they started they were committed to drive that bus for 97 hours. That's from money raised before they started, over $10,000! Roll on you crazy fuckers. ETA: For those of you on Twitter, there is an effort to keep #desertbus up in the trending topics! Come on, let's beat out New Moon! |
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I like how they find the one black teabagger and focus on him. |
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X-posted from ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} sparklefield since this is pure multi-fandom awesomeness:The Simpsons's 2010 Hallowe'en special will feature a segment in which Lisa falls madly in love with a vampire boy named Edmund. Cast as the voice of Edmund? Daniel Radcliffe. ♥! |
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( Cut for triggery WTFery ) That headline is ridiculous. The article is not much better. *quiet rage* ETA: Forgot the link, had to hunt through my browser history for it. Also, I'm still trying to figure out that line about "alleged abuse victims" -- what, the priests are convicted as pedophiles, but that doesn't mean the victims are telling the truth? |
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Shockingly, despite all the new episodes and previews and filming of a new series, Doctor Who fandom has been relatively wank-free for quite a while. (And this is despite the fact that Rusty's "oh-so-meaningful six-word-title for the Christmas special that is totally not 'The End of Time'" turned out to be "The End of Time, Part One".) Stupid agreeable fandom. Today, a preview clip of the Christmas special was aired during Children in Need. (Which can be viewed here, for those who missed it.) In a throwaway joke, it was implied that... ( Slight spoilers under the cut (for preview only) ) Oh, apparently there was Barrowman in pants, as well. I missed that bit. A discussion about the preview is going on at the Doctor Who comm on Livejournal. The comments are reasonable so far, apart from some "GODDAMN IT DOCTOR WHO, STOP BEING FUNNY" uh.. ness. But I Me, I'll just be over here laughing forever. (So as to avoid thinking about what's to come at Christmas. D:) |
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Citing the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s call to civil disobedience, 145 evangelical, Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian leaders have signed a declaration saying they will not cooperate with laws that they say could be used to compel their institutions to participate in abortions, or to bless or in any way recognize same-sex couples. ( Full text for the linkphobic ) |
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Here's some Project Runway plagiarism wank to go with the lovely vanity pub and author wank. I hope it goes without saying that there might be a spoiler or two for the finale, but I'll say it anyway: There are spoilers for the finale in this post. Project Runway "villain" and finalist Irina had a shirt in her final Bryant Park collection that has all the reasons she loves New York written on it. Oh, wait. Those aren't the reasons she loves New York, those are the reasons that someone who wrote a famous New York Magazine article loves New York. And this is the same girl who was going to feature And then ( spoileriffic things happen! And so does wank. ) |
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| Thursday, November 19th, 2009 |
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Hang on to your hats, kids, this one's a doozy in several parts. To start off, you might want to catch up on agilebrit's clairvoyantwank writeup. Clairvoyant indeed! To sum up, romance publisher Harlequin Enterprises teamed up with a publisher called ASI solutions to form Harlequin Horizons, a vanity press. Romance Writers of America promptly revoked Harlequin's "recognized publisher" status. And now for a wank in several parts, involving a goodly number of awesome people in addition to a wanking Cast of Thousands (tm): ( Part 1: PubRants ) ( Part deux: various forums ) ( Part Three: SBTB, and Nora Fucking Roberts ) ( Part the last: The NEW YORKER?! ) And finally, THIS JUST IN from PubRants. Watch that post for further And here come the ETAS! #1: SFWA tweets a heads-up, and the glorious katamari of wank rolls on! #2: Coutesy of magnolia_mama, Lee Goldberg drops his two cents from the MWA soapbox. In a shocking turn of events, he seems to be making a cogent, reasonable argument. My world is rocked.#3: annathepiper links us to SFWA's statement, which is possibly the strongest yet! For a snippet:...Further, SFWA believes that work published with Harlequin Horizons may injure writing careers by associating authors’ names with small sales levels reflected by the imprint’s lack of distribution, as well as its emphasis upon income received from writers and not readers....Until such time as Harlequin changes course, and returns to a model of legitimately working with authors instead of charging authors for publishing services, SFWA has no choice but to be absolutely clear that NO titles from ANY Harlequin imprint will be counted as qualifying for membership in SFWA. Further, Harlequin should be on notice that while the rules of our annual Nebula Award do not expressly prohibit self-published titles from winning, it is highly unlikely that our membership would ever nominate or vote for a work that was published in this manner....SFWA does not believe that changing the name of the imprint, or in some other way attempting to disguise the relationship to Harlequin, changes the intention, and calls on Harlequin to do the right thing by immediately discontinuing this imprint and returning to doing business as an advance and royalty paying publisher. Count on the pew-pew lasers genre to bring the burn! #4: Found by pariforma, someone named Jackie Kessler has an excellent (and amusing) summary of the whole mess on their blog. The pricing breakdown (with reference links to the Harlequin price-sheets themselves) is particularly well-done.#5, which should be like #3 but I missed it the first time: via lady_ganesh, Mr. Scalzi has spoken. Does anyone else smell something...burning?( Too Hot (and big) For Your Flist ) Mmm, PR barbecue. As a bonus, there's a lovely herd of teal deer in the comments, including some truly lovely wanking by one Diana Peterfreund and a few others. Scroll on through, it's a good time. Blooper reel: We, uh, may have played a part in crashing SBTB for a while there. please don't kill meeeee #6: Zoe Winters continues her wanking in the comments of an article at the Examiner. Thanks dreamworld!
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I was kind of surprised this hadn't hit Unfunnybusiness yet... ( Cut for triggers. ) |
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Father kills son after son's underage sex confession ( Cut for triggers ) |
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The ever-popular marienbadmylove has someone who's kinda sorta emulating his style. Davy Rocketship is 'just going to start typing and see what comes out'. An example of what comes out, taken from his profile: Look world. In the like the side of Alpha. Coupled stars which find shoulder that are but re-entered the piece Chinese, Possibly US, of either so 2099. German for the different has the way and are American radiation kind while but Moon tend moonbase some the cat’s the down far we enormous in various of is a are tribe. It's amazing. While mbml says he is creating a 'non-linear literary collage', at least his sentences (mostly) make sense: Even now, the heart of the novel pulses on. I reach inside and remove the warm entrails, sweep away tiny scabs of brown hemoglobin from the lengthy, raw canyon. Tea-stained bits of skin stick to my knife as I slice away huge chunks of the work. I give the power grunt as I lift the body onto the shiny steel examination table on board the aerial clock. Look at the corpse. Even in death it is still an inspiring sight. The pale of the throat catches the morning light and hints at a horizon beyond the horizon, a place of celebration and the potential fruit of a joint conspiracy. (It could be true!) Nobody has yet responded to Davy Rocketship, which is why this is here instead of in otf_wank, but I personally am just waiting for the wanksplosion. Edit (21 Nov): Still no wank. Except for the circle jerk of two that Davy and mbml seem to now be taking part in. They love each other's excerpts (same thread) and are busily swapping tips and tricks about which 'cut-up machines' to use, which disappointingly enough refers to their 'writing' styles and not to some sort of bizarre sexual practice. Alas, wankas, I fear I have failed thee this time. |
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| Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 |
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Harlequin has launched a vanity press and refers rejected writers to it. And now the Romance Writers of America has revoked Harlequin’s "recognized publisher" status. Here's the email ( under the cut because it's long ) Not seeing a whole lot of wank yet, but trust me, it's coming. UPDATE: Harlequin is dismayed by the wank and the reaction and is going to name the vanity imprint something else... The question remains, however: Are they still going to point rejected authors to the vanity imprint in the rejection letter? |
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| Thursday, November 19th, 2009 |
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This is the first negative opinion piece on the Twilight series I've seen on a mainstream newspaper (well at least one that's local), possibly I've been living under a rock, but it made me very happy. You know how hard it is when your flist is going on and on about a series you can't stand? Well, OK, you can just scroll on by, but now it's society which is going on and on about it, the advertising is driving me a bit insane, I can't wait until people move onto the next big thing. Warning, spoilers in article. ---- When I was growing up, my literary heroine was Josephine March from Little Women. Jo was a lanky tomboy with no interest in frocks or gentlemen. While her sisters flirted and fretted about their noses, Jo scribbled in the attic, dreaming of becoming a writer. She chopped off her hair, threw snowballs and lived with gusto at a time when gusto was extremely unladylike. ( Bella has become a poster girl for the gender roles Jo and Anne rejected more than 100 years ago ) Source |
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| Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 |
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Mother calls the police to her home to help her control her 10-year-old... again. Mother repeatedly tells the cop he can tase her daughter. After a brief struggle, the cop does. According to the police chief, tasing the girl was preferable to picking her up because "They can slip from you and fall on the ground." Link ( Text for the linkphobic. ) ETA: The officer's report on The Smoking Gun, link courtesy of heuradys.
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Background: Ubuntu is a distribution of Linux. Think of it as a version of Linux like you have Windows XP, Vista, Me, 95, etc. Some people created Ubuntun Christian Edition, which annoyed some members of the Ubuntu community who didn't see why a special religious-based distribution was needed but it was mostly a polite argument. Then, in retaliation, Ubuntu Satanic Edition was created. Cue wank. Not from the Christians, though! The wank was all provided by a Satanist called HHS and another Satanist who called himself 'friend of HHS', both of whom popped up in the comments box and kept a running argument going with several different people until he randomly disppeared. Most of it is under the cut, because it's long and takes place over years, but here are a few highlights to whet your appetite, both from him and people who were arguing with him. HHS starts off with saying "This is very insulting to my religion. I really don’t think you should misuse the Lord’s name like that. Richard M. Stallman, who is responsible for GNU and Linux, is a jewish psychopath who does not deserve to come near Hell. We do not want to be associated with him or anything made by this communist who never bathes and eats his own hair." People get confused and think he's a Christian who's objecting to Linux SE. Cue HHS exploding and warning them "It’s very unclever to go against the Lord and dishonour Him and His people. When you die and meet Satan, just try calling Him “jesus boy” too and you’ll know what I’m talking about. I assume that you two are Jews because they call everyone Christian who aren’t Jews or Muslims." ( All hail LINUX -- I mean, Satan/Cthulhu/Flying Spaghetti Monster/God/Allah/[insert deity or pantheon of choice here!] ) |
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From wank_report: Genevieve Koski, writing for the A.V. Club, offers her opinion on a recent screening of Ghostbusters for Better Late Than Never, the feature in which authors who never experienced some element of the pop culture of the past go back and review it with the jaded eyes of the present. Her opinion, of course, is negative. ( Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light. ) ...I don't have to warn for Ghostbusters spoilers, do I? |
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God I love the new Scary Go Round spin off so much. http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?d |
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| Monday, November 16th, 2009 |
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I'm surprised this hasn't made it over here yet: Universal's UK 'Couples Retreat' Poster Brings Cries of Racism by Removing Black Actors The excuse? In response to outrage over the move, a Universal spokesman said the altered poster aimed "to simplify the poster to actors who are most [recognizable] in international markets." Universal "issued a statement regretting any offense it caused, and the studio has scrapped all plans to use the modified poster in other overseas markets" but this makes it sound like the problem is with the people who took offense. |
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Three teens accused of setting boy on fire face attempted murder charges. ( Why? It was over a video game. ) |
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Picked this up from Cleo's twitter. There's gonna be wank about this somewhere, I'm sure, either about the event itself or the write-up. "Robert Pattinson fan hospitalised over poster fight." "Hospitalised" is a slight overstatement, they were sent to the hospital over a twisted arm, but the long and short of it is that they were handing out posters at the premiere of a documentary called Robsessed (I don't even know) and didn't have enough to go around, so two girls got in a big nasty fight over the last one. The poster, by the way, was ripped in half during the fight. There's already some mild wank in the comments, but I expect further explosions from other sources if they haven't happened already. ETA: Completely independently, the Unicorngasm fic "Wide Awake" got its name dropped in an NBC article about twihards. This has the makings of an interesting week.... |
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